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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Hofstra L. Rev. introduces "Ideas" section

The Hofstra Law Review (sorry, Dan, I just can't write "Hawfstra" yet) has published its first set in a new section of pieces called "Ideas." Commentaries in this section will be three to ten pages long with minimal footnotes. In his introduction to the first collection, my colleague Mark Movsesian notes that Ideas pieces will generally be "brief observations on important legal questions." He notes that the section is in many ways a hearkening back to past, when law reviews generally published much shorter articles. But there are current corollaries as well. Mark makes the following observation about legal blogs:

To some degree, Internet blogs have begin to fill the need for short legal commentary. Blogs can be valuable additions to scholarly discourse, but they also have their own drawbacks. They are ephemeral, they sometimes lack academic rigor, and they are easily lost in the vastness of the blogosphere. What is needed is a space for brief, but careful, treatments of legal subjects in a medium that readers can readily find and preserve.

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